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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Glass Bead Game
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Hermann Hesse
Asher
, January 31, 2013
This is a marvelously erudite and provocative book, but at the same time a fascinating character study as Hesse imagines such biographies might be written (dispassionately, supposedly) in his mysterious future utopia wherein the life of the mind has achieved a different (better? or just different?) status within society than seemed possible in his time, or certainly in ours.
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44 Scotland Street: 44 Scotland Street 1
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Alexander McCall Smith
Asher
, January 24, 2010
This book begins the "Scotland Street Series" of serialized novels, all of which I find remarkably charming, humorous, and philosophically provocative. A full slate of cariacature-like but somehow believable characters are followed as they weave in and out of direct or indirect interactions--so if the reader grows tired of focusing on one of them, before they can blink their favorite has reentered center stage. I need to figure out if the next book in the series has just come out . . .
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Varieties Of Scientific Experience A Personal View of the Search for God
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Carl Sagan
Asher
, January 20, 2008
Of all the recent disquisitions upon and analyses of the supposed irreconcilable natures of faith and science, this posthumously published set of natural theology (!) lectures is by far the most compassionate, passionate, optimistic (despite the rather somber Cold War context), and well-reasoned. You may not agree with Sagan's stance, or even feel that he comes down hard enough with a hard-and-fast argument (which was not, after all, the goal of these dated but still highly relevant talks), but you will be prompted to think and feel more deeply and more constructively--while being entertained as well.
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